ughhh roommate bitching about utility costs again. she's like "i shouldn't be paying this much in electric bills, i'm never home and i don't game!" well yeah we aren't gaming on our computers 24/7 either but the air conditioning and fridge are sucking up the vast majority of the bill and those work whether you're here or not.

also YOUR DOG JUST ATE THE WALL.

lesson learned, don't live with women.

@beardalaxy they make meters you can plug in to the walls ya know

@icedquinn i know, but we have solar and the difference between all of us would end up being like $3 probably. then where do i draw the line? like should i measure exactly how much space people are using in the fridge and then divide the cost of the fridge's total electricity usage? it just gets to be a lot of work on my end lol, for just a few dollars difference. if someone's complaining about that they're petty and probably wouldn't want to do all of that themselves in the first place.

plus those meters aren't going to be worth the cost for the last 3 months we're here lol.

i can imagine that this is why landlords charge a flat fee for utilities, that's probably based on like the average for a year.

this also reminds me of when a previous roommate got mad he was paying the same amount for the internet as everyone else even though he only watched netflix, and i'm like... yeah netflix is going to take up more bandwidth than anything else xD

@beardalaxy they're like 20$ https://www.amazon.com/KETOTEK-Electricity-Kilowatt-Consumption-Protection/dp/B0B2K2HNDY

@beardalaxy but yes probably the bulk of electricity cost is going to the industrial appliances (washing machine, fridge, ovens and blenders.) my blender has a kilowatt motor and i'm pretty sure it soaks as much power making one smoothie as my gaming rig probably does on an average day of office blobbing

@icedquinn HOLY SHIT our blender is 1.4 kilowatts xD that's fucking hilarious man.

@beardalaxy industrial equipment puts your 3d boob rendering uses to shame

@beardalaxy i think it was morgan stanley who issued a financial opinion that was bearish on nvidia. partly because chatgpt runs on datacenters of gpu for inference, and the total cost of power to run gpu supercomputers is significantly less than what google has to pay to run cpu supercomputers.

compute and management occupies the lowest end of the spectrum--meaning california is dead wrong with the "muh gamin compoot" copes.